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SB151: relative to arbitration agreements in nursing home contracts.
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Sponsors
- Donna Soucy Senate · Dist 18
- Dan Feltes Senate · Dist 15
- Weber House · Ches 1
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SB 151 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0858
05/01
SENATE BILL 151
AN ACT relative to arbitration agreements in nursing home contracts.
ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits a nursing facility from requiring that a patient sign a mandatory arbitration agreement.
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0858
05/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to arbitration agreements in nursing home contracts.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Residential Care and Health Care Facility Licensing; Patients' Bill of Rights; Arbitration Agreements. Amend RSA 151:21 by inserting after paragraph XXI the following new paragraph:
XXII. The patient shall not be required to sign a mandatory arbitration agreement as a precondition for medical treatment or admission to the facility. Any such agreement shall be void and unenforceable.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.